INNOVATION
Interview with Two Wizards: Albert Meige & Rémi Larrousse
Albert Meige and Rémi Larrousse are both exemplars of a rare breed of magicians / entrepreneurs. They recently embarked on a completely new type of project: delivering innovation + magic corporate seminars for project-oriented companies who want to revamp their...
Food for Thought: Michel Houellebecq and Innovation
We have to realize that the objects that are manufactured in the world - reinforced concrete, electric lamps, underground trains, handkerchiefs - are all designed and manufactured by a small class of engineers and technicians, able to imagine and to implement the...
GE: Digital Disruption Takeover?
Industrial titan General Electric and France keep the plot twists coming. 2014 was the year the merger with Alstom took place. Two years later, GE is deploying its first Digital Foundry in Paris, where developers and data scientists will create...
Business Performance Awards: GE, SEB… and Jeremy Rifkin
Somehow I landed in the prestigious and quite vast Théâtre de Chaillot to cover the first ever Business Performance Awards, organized by consulting company Ayming (thank you Albertino 🙂 ). The theme of the evening is: performance. A jury...
Startup Index Quest | 4 – the Startup Graveyards
One reason to build a startup index is to get data out of it. At least, such a reason might seem plausible. With data, you can measure such things as the life expectancy of startups. Why not? But this means that your index needs a graveyard,...
The Game-Changer Mindset
A company’s corporate culture prescribes to its members what to believe, what to prefer, what to do and how to do it. Such a set of prescriptions is based on the example of leaders, on the traditions of the past, and on bureaucratic rules. It...
The Chief Innovation Officer should be in charge of new territories. No more. No less.
A analysis with Google Trends on “Chief Innovation Officer” shows an increasing interest starting in 2010. The term was actually coined and described by Miller and Morris in 1998, but it seems to have only received interest in the past 4-5...
Thierry Mandon’s Four Point Plan to Save the French Industry
Techinnov happened a couple of weeks ago. Now in its tenth year, this cross-industrial trade fair has become an important component of the Île-de-France innovation ecosystem. Once a year in February, the upper floor of Orly airport thus turns into a marketplace for...
Startup Index Quest | 3 — Zoom on Kima Ventures
In the previous installment of this series, I took a look at the disruptive approach to indexing startups adopted by AngelList. One of the industries disrupted by Naval Ravikant’s company is Venture Capital (VC). The obvious drawback of VC...
The Innovator’s Mindset: Being Number Two — An Interview with Miguel Aubouy
There's something different about innovators that sets them apart in their outlook. They might be doing everything right, and they might even be reaping rich rewards from doing so. Yet they stay away from becoming fat and comfortable. They opt...
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